FONTANA – Despite a warning that the current school year is likely to end up with a $2.6 million deficit, the Fontana Unified School District Board on Wednesday night voted to bring back 10 laid off locker room attendants at a cost of $285,000.

In a major lift for supporters of California’s same-sex marriage ban, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday that proponents of ballot initiatives can defend their measures in court when the governor and attorney general refuse to do so.